The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-08-20
WISCONSIN ITEMS.


cldental discharge OF q rifle IN the
hands OF August Hernke.
La CROSSE papers report that the
Mississippi River Is only six inches
short OF its lowest record.
THE taxable real estate and person
a property OF La Crosse is valued at
SO, ,405, ,321.
DEPUTY Fish WARDEN MALCHow, OF
! Ashland, has been arrested at the in
stance OF Alexander Cole, who charges
him with assault and battery.
THE West Wisconsin conference OF
the Methodist Church viii be held at
| Mineral Point, commencing September
%. Bishop Fowler Will preside.
IT Is reported at Bayfield, that the
main shaft OF the Holstou iron option
is thirty feet in clean shipping ore with
upwards OF 1,OOO tons IN the stock
pile.
/ CLARA CHURCHILL, on trial at Madi-
son four days on the charge OF writing
and distributing obscene literature,
was acquitted. This trial was by the
state. The United States prefers
charges against her also, for using the
mails unlagfully.
THE case OF ". II. Griffin, charged
at Ashland with causing the death of
his vile by throwing a lamp at her,
was dismissed by the court.
SIX steam elevators will be placed
on the Central Company's dock at
Ashland.
THE Hinkley Locomotive Company
OF Boston is building ten locomotives
for the Chicago, Burlington & North
err Railway after designs OF Master
Mechanic Bryan, or La Crosse.
The new Ashland furnace will be 25
per cent. larger than any charcoal
blast furnace in the country. Eighty
charcoal kilns, each OF 50-Cord capaC-
ity, will be required to supply the
: 600 bushels OF charcoal that the
furnace will use daily. These kilns
will cost $500 each. Thus the vast
amount OF money to be expended Tor
the purchase OF the 1000 cords OF
wood, required for filling these kiIns,
and which will Dc paid out TO the far
mers IN this section.
f. G. .RoDoLF, formerly OF La
Crosse, has leased the Grand Opera
1AOeSCJ AhAN1uhCSs AOL tHc GOLuAuS
year.
JOHN SHERIDAN, aged SO, fell from a
wagon at La Crosse and broke his
NECK. He lived about twenty minutes
after and talked, being fully conscious
that his neck was broken.
Two women OF the town were riding
In 3 carriage at La Crosse, when the
horse began to run. One, known as
Claude Livingstone, Jumped and fell
on her head, producing internal hem
orrhage, and died in q short time.
REPORTS received by the State
Board of Charities and Reform for the
month ending July 81, show that the
whole number OF insane in the state
hospitals and county asylums during
the month was 2,6S6--a net increase
over the previous month OF 5S and
an increase ot1S9 since January l.
a CoRoNER's Jury found that Julius
kITCh, shot and killed by Frank Rie-
del, near La Crosse, came to his death
by q careless accident"
\ PRAIRIE DU CHEN man has a
double hen 5 egg-to eggs Joined by a
hollow tube an inch and a half long.
WILLIAM GAILY, living near Eau
Claire, mas grown watermelon weigh
ing 65 pounds s.,ss,---.
The Wisconsin Grand Lodge OF Good
Templars will meet at Madison on
September 8.
THE La Crosse burglars have moved
to WinOna.
Ills announced that preparations are
b 4. L.. IL d, u.
loon on the grounds Of the National
Soldiers Home, Milwaukee, under the
control OF the authorities Ofthe ehOme.
A PORTION of the buildings OF the
State Fair Association at Mllwau-
kee were destroyed by the receut
wind storm, causing a loss OF $4,000.
RECENTLY a party OF armed men
ransaCked several houses IN Eau
Claire, stealing small sums OF money
and valuables.
MADISON proposes a dog tax OF 81
head.
:. H. Brown has purchased the Che
quamegon Hotel property in Ash
land, from the Wisconsin Central
Railway, embracing fifteen lots and
water frontage OF 400 feet. 1t is the
best property in the city. Fifty feet
at the corner Of Second Street and
WhIttlesy Avenue was re-sold to Louis
Kalman for 500 per front foot.
FOREST and marsh fires are report
ed to be doing much damage in differ
ent parts or the state.
THE annual "retreat" OF the Cath
oliC clergymen OF the diocese OF La
Crosse will be held this year at the
College OF Sacred Heart, Prairie du
Chien.
THE total OF pensions paid at the
Milwaukee agency during the month
ot July was S214.O0O, the largest
ever made.
An Episcopal college and seminary
Is to be established st Sturgeon Bay.
ASHLAND COUNTY has awarded
contract for new almshouse at 81
$50.
TWENTY-FIVE persons were arrested
in q disreputable house near Wash
burn.
A Mrs. SCoTT lost her way while
picking berries near : urgeOn Bay, and
spent thiTty-six hours in the woods.
She was completely exhausted when
found.
STREET cars will be running IN Ash
land in thirty days.
The farm residence OF Charles Fox,
IL the town OF Lima, twenty miles
south of Eau Claire, was, with most
OF the contents, destroyed by fire.
The loss IS 81, 600; insurance, $500.
The striking cigarmakers OF Pampe-
rIue Waggenhvim, La Crosse, who
have been out a month for the eight
hour work-day rule, have agreed to
return.
JrLIvs HoLsTERE, OF La Crosse, was
shot through the body near the pit OF
the stomach and fatally wounded on
the 7th. HoIstern and q companion
were having a playful scutfie few
miles out in the country for the pos.
session Of a shot gun with which they
were shooting small birds. During the
scutfie the gun was accidentally dis
charged, Holstern's body being norri-